6 reasons to improve your body language

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6 reasons to improve your body language

( The Positivity Blog | Increase Your Happiness and Awesomeness - http://www.positivityblog.com)

Posted By Henrik Edberg On October 26, 2006

1. …words are only 7 percent of your communication.
The rest is your voice tonality (38 percent) and your body language at 55 percent. That’s according to research done by Albert Mehrabian [2], currently Professor Emeritus in psychology at UCLA. These numbers may vary depending upon the situation and what is communicated (for instance, talking over the phone is obviously different from talking face to face) but body language is a very important part of communication.

2. Increase your attractiveness
It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. A better posture, a more open body language, a more controlled and focused body language will make everyone more attractive. And not just in a sexual way but when talking to new friends or in job interviews and business meetings.

3. Emotions are linked to your body language
Emotions work backwards too. If you feel good you’ll smile. If you force yourself to smile you’ll feel good too. If you feel tired or down you might sit slumped down. If you sit slumped down you’ll feel more tired and negative. Just try to sit straight up for 5 minutes and feel the difference in energy from half-lying in your chair.

4. Reduce mixed messages
If you’re in a job interview and you talk with a steady voice and say all the confident things you should but your body language tells your maybe-employers that you are very nervous or guarded then you are incongruent (and perhaps without that job). What you want is be congruent, that is for your words, your voice and your body language to say the same thing.

5. Improve your communication skills
If you improve your body language you can get your thoughts across in a more effective way. You can create a connection to another person more easily. When using more powerful and appropriately balanced body language your communication skills become more focused and better.

6. Better first impressions
Everyone stereotypes everyone on first impression, even if we are reluctant to do it. We all get a first impression of a new person that creates a mental image of his or her personality in our minds. That image of you often lasts. Having a better body language will consistently give people a more positive mental snapshot of you.

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Do or Make??

“Making Do" (With What You Have)
By Marianne Raynaud


If you want to make progress without wasting your time

Make a list of expressions that do tend to rhyme

It won’t make much difference if you make a mistake

Just make an announcement: "I’ve made biscuits and cake!"

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Make a trip to some country to meet people like us

Make an effort to smile, and don’t make a fuss

Say you love making plans, appointments and such

Making breakfast or dinner doesn’t bother you much

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And if the words that you hear don’t make any sense

Make an effort to answer and do not feel tense

Make lists of exceptions; give your partner a test

Inventing "Review Sheets" is what you like best

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But if you made a bet about what could be right

You’d not make a fortune; I’d pity your plight*

’Cause the rules, they were made a long time ago

So make peace with this language wherever you go


Postscript
They’re doing a show; they’re making such noise

It must be my neighbors, those young college boys

So I’ll make a stop here, since it’s late in the night

You’ll have to do better and keep up the fight*!

The best of English

Dear friends,

We are students of basic english from Brazil at Cultura Inglesa, and we are interested in talk about culture, news, books, grammar and everything in English, of course, and with this we wish learn more english writting, reading and listening when the students will post some link about music or films. Let's learn more this beutiful and important language!!

Kisses!

Karen.